China News Network Beihai, April 28 (Li Yang, Chen Beize) On April 28, the Beihai Intermediate People's Court of Guangxi publicly pronounced the original party group members and deputy directors of the Laibin People's Congress Standing Committee and the former county party secretary of Xincheng County using the three-party remote video trial In the case of Xie Dayan suspected of taking bribes, the defendant Xie Dayan was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment and a fine of 500,000 yuan.

Photo courtesy of Chen Beize

  After trial, it was found that between 2010 and 2018, the defendant Xie Dayan used his convenience as the county magistrate, secretary of the county party committee, deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Laibin Municipal People's Congress, and served as a stone company in Xincheng County, Chen Mouhua Other units or individuals provide assistance in matters such as mineral resources development, engineering project contracting, and project construction coordination, and illegally accepting the property and materials given by the above units and individuals totaling RMB 4.56 million.

  The court held that the defendant Xie Dayan, as a national staff member, took advantage of his position to seek benefits for others, and illegally received money from others totaling RMB 4.56 million. The amount was particularly large, and his conduct constituted a crime of bribery. Xie Dayan took bribes for a long period of time, the amount of bribes was extremely large, and the criminal behavior involved a wide range, which greatly hindered the normal management activities of state organs, state-owned companies, enterprises and institutions, and also seriously violated the integrity of the state staff's job behavior. In view of the fact that the defendant Xie Dayan was able to plead guilty after confessing the case, he voluntarily confessed most of the same crime facts that have not yet been grasped by the case-handling agency, which played an important role in the investigation of the case, and withdrew all the stolen money and actively prepaid fines through the family. With a good performance of pleading guilty and punishment, the court punished the defendant Xie Dayan with a lighter punishment and made the above judgment.

Tripartite remote video court trial photo by Zhai Li Qiang

  The sentencing process was presided over by Chief Justice Liao Huikai, with participation of the Procuratorate, defendants and defenders, and was broadcast live through the China Trial Open Network. At the end of the sentencing, the clerk sent the transcript of the trial to the courtroom of the detention center through the tripartite trial system. (Finish)